[meteorite-list] NWA paying for terrorism?

[SaharaTeam at aol.com]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:38:05 -0500, "Gary K.  Foote" <gary at webbers.com> wrote:

>Does anybody lend any credence  to this  theory?
>
>http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/data/Sahara/Nwa.html


Two  facts:

1) NWA meteorites are for 95%, contraband items, coming from  Algeria and the 
whole Sahara (9 million square kilometers). These rocks are  centralized in 
one point (South Morocco, Erfoud). 25 Algerian policemen have  been especially 
trained to stop this contraband.
See two links (you can use  Google language tools to translate from French)  :
http://www.elwatan.com/print.php3?id_article=15125
http://www.algerie-dz.com/article1665.html

2)  Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative.
Saharan contraband is well  organized and linked with army groups. That's the 
reason why a budget of  $  500 millions will be allocated by the US 
government to stop it. Ten sub-Saharan  countries are associated to the project. Half 
of the budget will be allocated  for helping the population to develop their 
economy, the other is dedicated to  the fight against army groups and the 
contraband controlled by them. See this  link:
http://www.defense.gov/news/May2005/20050516_1126.html

And  also for an external point of  view:
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/caocl/Africa/Pan-Sahel/Readings/Islamist%20Terrorism
%20in%20the%20Sahel--Fact%20or%20Fiction.pdf


Richard  & Roland Pelisson
http://www.SaharaMet.com